After a backlash over its overzealous issuing of bus lane fines, Auckland City Council today agreed to new initiatives "to ensure a fair and reasonable approach" to bus lane enforcement.

The Commerce Commission has filed proceedings in the High Court in Auckland against a number of multi-national freight forwarding companies.

A mid-air explosion forced a Qantas' 747 jetliner carrying 230 people to make an emergency landing.

Eric Thompson writes that testosterone level has a direct bearing on driving skill - it seems to make it worse.

Travellers between Tauranga and Christchurch, and Invercargill and Wellington, are the big winners in Air New Zealand's latest boost to domestic capacity.

Relocation of Auckland's Birdcage pub, initially expected to be done today, will now take until at least midday tomorrow.

All 740 tonnes of the Birdcage are being moved 40m for the Victoria Park tunnel project.

Local Government Minister and Act Party leader Rodney Hide shares his vision for the new Super City.

Businesses are concerned traffic diversions to be put in place while the Newmarket Viaduct is developed will create traffic mayhem.

There will be 36 hours of car chaos next weekend when the country's busiest highway closes to south-bound traffic.

A new 4.5km stretch of motorway connecting the southern and southwestern motorways at Manukau has been opened.

A Somali woman was today jailed for nine years for New Zealand's only in-flight aircraft hijacking.